We made our stretch goal, with a big surge on the last day (thank you!), and our word-count limit for submissions is now 15,000 words. Thank you for making that happen.

Thank you also to all who RT’d or shared or otherwise helped spread word, or bought gift subscriptions for other readers, or tweeted or posted about BCS #250 or stories or podcasts. That is a great help to us too; reaching readers with our stories and podcasts.

BCS ebook subscriptions, available exclusively at WeightlessBooks.com, are only $15.99 for a full year/26 issues (less than 30 cents a story). Subscribers can have issues delivered directly to their Kindle or smart phone, and they get new issues early, a week before the website.

From now until May 11, if you buy a BCS ebook subscription or renew your existing subscription (you can renew at any time), you can help unlock our drive goals.

Since BCS #1 in 2008–250 issues, 525 stories!–over a third of our fiction has been novelette length or longer. Longer stories work great for awe-inspiring fantasy worlds, like you’ll find in every issue of BCS. Our word-count limit for submissions has always been among the longest of pro-rate online magazines, and last year as a goal unlocked by our 2017 Subscription Drive, we made it even longer: 14,000 words.

If you’d like to support BCS but you’re not interested in ebooks, please consider donating. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization; your donation is tax deductible.

We have ‘subscription’ donation options where you can donate a small amount every month. From now until May 11, every new monthly donor who signs up, we will count you in our Subscription Drive’s tally of new subscribers, and you will be helping us toward our Drive goals.

Every subscription and donation makes a difference in helping us pay our authors for their great stories. Thank you for your support of BCS!

It starts with all bundles of BCS #1-#50 for 50% off today, then all #51-#100 50% off tomorrow, then #101-150 on Monday, and so on. But each set of bundles will be 50% off for one day only!

Get great BCS issues delivered straight to your e-reader or phone for 50% off. Grab back issues you might have missed, and help support BCS at the same time. But act fast; each set of bundles will be 50% off for one day only!

Best of BCS, Year Eight contains sixteen great stories from the eighth year of BCS, by authors such as Catherynne M. Valente, K.J. Parker, Mishell Baker, Rich Larson, and Rose Lemberg.

It includes “Blood Grains Speak Through Memories” by Jason Sanford, a finalist for the Nebula Awards, “The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery” by Catherynne M. Valente, a finalist for the Eugie Foster Memorial Award, and “Foxfire, Foxfire” by Yoon Ha Lee and “A Salvaging of Ghosts” by Aliette de Bodard, finalists for the Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award.

Best of BCS, Year Eight is available early exclusively at WeightlessBooks.com. It costs only $3.99, and all proceeds go to pay BCS authors and artists for their work.

Use it to buy a BCS Ebook Subscription (less than $16 for 26 issues/a whole year), any back issues you missed, or to renew an existing subscription (you can renew at any time, no matter when your subscription expires).

Get BCS issues conveniently delivered to your e-reader and support the magazine at the same time!

We made our second stretch goal! With a surge on the last day of the drive. Our word-count limit for submissions is now 14,000 words. Thank you for making that happen!

Thank you also to all who RT’d or shared or otherwise helped spread word, or bought gift subscriptions for other readers, or tweeted or posted about the drive or BCS or our stories or podcasts. That is a great help to us too; reaching readers with our stories and podcasts.

We have many great stories forthcoming this year, from returning BCS authors and ones new to our pages, including Richard Parks (the first two stories in a new series), Margaret Ronald, Rebecca Campbell, Marissa Lingen, Stephen Case, Charles Payseur, and many promising newcomers. Plus a new Science-Fantasy Month and a new Birdverse novella by Nebula finalist Rose Lemberg, twice as long as any piece BCS has ever published, with a special podcast version of that novella–over four hours long.

BCS ebook subscriptions are a major source of revenue for the magazine. They cost only $15.99 for a full year/26 issues, and subscribers get new issues a week before the website.

Our goal is to get enough new/ renewing subscribers or new donors that we can raise our word-count limit for submissions. Our limit has always been one of the highest of any online magazine, and we raised it to 11,000 words as a goal in last year’s Subscription Drive. With your help, this year we’d like to raise it even higher: to 12,000 words, 14,000, or even 20,000.

Help us raise it even higher! See the 2017 BCS Subscription Drive for details on how to subscribe or donate, what you get when you subscribe, and some of the great new and returning BCS authors forthcoming in the magazine. Thank you for your support!

Our BCS Issue #200 Subscription Drive last year was so successful, supporting BCS and unlocking a goal to raise our word count for submissions, that we’re having another Subscription Drive this year!

UPDATE: our first goal is unlocked! BCS has raised our word-count limit to 12,000 words. Subscribe now, and help us raise it to 14,000 or even 20,000!

BCS ebook subscriptions, available exclusively at WeightlessBooks.com, are only $15.99 for a full year/26 issues. (That’s less than 30 cents a story!) Subscribers can have issues delivered directly to their Kindle or smart phone, and they get new issues early, a week before the website.

Subscribe now and you’ll get early access to new stories by Richard Parks (the first two stories in a new series), Margaret Ronald, Rebecca Campbell, Marissa Lingen, Stephen Case, Charles Payseur, Ryan Row, and many promising newcomers. Plus a new Science-Fantasy Month and a new Birdverse novella by Nebula finalist Rose Lemberg, twice as long as any piece BCS has ever published, with a special podcast version of that novella–over four hours long–as episode 200 of the BCS Audio Fiction Podcast.

From now until June 2, when you buy a BCS ebook subscription or renew your existing subscription (you can renew at any time), you will help unlock our drive goals.

Since BCS #1 in 2008–225 issues, 475 stories!–over a third of our fiction has been novelette-length or longer. Long stories work great for awe-inspiring fantasy worlds, like those in every issue of BCS. Our word-count limit for submissions has always been among the longest of pro-rate online magazines, and last year as a goal unlocked by our subscription drive, we made it even longer: 11,000 words.

If you’d like to support BCS but you’re not interested in ebooks, please consider donating. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization; your donation is tax deductible.

We have ‘subscription’ donation options where you can donate a small amount every month. From now until June 2, every new monthly donor who signs up, we will count you in our Subscription Drive’s tally of new subscribers, and you will be helping us toward our Drive goals.

Every subscription and donation makes a difference in helping us pay our authors for their great stories. Thank you for your support of BCS!